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E. V. KLETSCHKA'.

CRIB. APPLICATION FILED APR. 27,19I8.

1 48,426, Patented Aug. 3, 1920.

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CRIB.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 3, 1920.

Application filed April 27, 1918. Serial No. 231,563.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EMIL V. KLE'rsorrKA, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Minneapolis, in the county of Hennepin and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cribs, of which the following is a specification.

One object of my invention is to provide, in a swinging crib, a substantial support for the swinging body to prevent the crib from readily overturning.

Another object of my invention is to provide, in a support for the swinging bodyof the crib, means for limiting the are through which the crib will swing. j

With these and incidental objects in view the invention consists of certain novel features of construction and combination of parts, the essential elements of which are hereinafter described with reference to the drawing which accompanies and forms a part of this specification.

In the drawing, Figure l is a front view of a trunnion support used in supporting the body of my improved crib; Fig. 2 is a side view of the same. Fig. 3 is a front view of the receiving socket for the trunnion. Fig. 4 is a side view of the same. Fig. 5 is a detail from side elevation showing the engagement of the trunnion and the receiving socket, and Fig. (3 is a side elevation of a crib and showing the axis of oscillation of the swinging body.

As shown in Fig. 6, a frame 1 having upstanding members 2 and 3 carries pivoted thereto a crib body 4, the supporting means being comprised of two members 5 and 6 so arranged that the axis of oscillation is along the line 7 and 8.

Each of the supporting members 5 and 6 is comprised of a trunnion support 9, Figs.

1 and 2, and a receiving socket 10, Figs. 3

and 4. The receiving socket is attached preferably by screws to the upstanding member 2, while the trunnion support is attached preferably by screws to the body 4.

It is readily seen that, taken individually,

the supporting members 5 and 6 provide merely means for swinging about the pivotal connection between the trunnion support and the receiving socket, but when the two are taken together and mounted as showniin Fig. 6, the body 4 will swing on the axis of oscillation 7 and 8, and as this axis is positioned at an angle to the center of oscillation of the crib body, the end 11 of the crib will swing through an arc of a lesser radius than will the end 12, the-result being that the trunnion support and receiving socket, at each end, will bind and prevent the body from swinglng through more than a predetermined arc.

Vhile I have described my invention and.

illustrated it in one particular design, I do not wish it understood that I limit myself, to

this construction, as it is evident that the application of the invention may be varied in many ways within the scope of the following claims.

Claims:

1. In a crib the combination of an oscillatable crib body, a trunnion support for said body at each end thereof, one of said trunnion supportsbeing positioned higher than the other. 2. In a crib the combination of a supporting frame, a pair of upstanding supports carried thereby, a cribbodysuspended from said upstanding supports by trunnion connection with each of said supports, the trunnion connection with one ofsaid supports being positioned higher than the trunnion connection of the other of said supports.

3. In a crib the combination of a support- .ing frame having two upstanding members, an oscillating body supported by a trunnion connection with each of said upstandin g supports, said supports being of different heights and said trunnion connection being EMIL v. KLETSOHKA. 

